is contained in "Peter Miller and Michael Witman," a paper presented to the Lancaster County Historical Society in 1902 by Hiram Erb Steinmetz. His great-great-grandfather, Col. John Wright, had bought the confiscated hotel property from Michael Diffenderffer on March 15, 1787. Steinmetz was born in

of the Eberman family and their clocks by Stacy B. C. Wood, Jr., titled "A John Eberman Legacy: Eight Lancaster, Pennsylvania Clockmakers," was published in the Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society (Vol. 91, No. 3, Trinity 1987/88. It is the third in a series about clockmaking families

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: The Steele Family Papers contain genealogical records, notes, and documents supporting the lineage between Mary Edna Murphy (DAR No. 297765) and Revolutionary War soldiers Robert Bailey, John Cowell, Adam Reigart, Henry Slaymaker, and John Steele, and architect Robert Smith. Creator: Steele family

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economic stability. Unemployment and economic recession have more severe effects on communities based on one major industry. He points with pride to his family for introducing the first gift shop in Lancaster, the first to introduce greeting cards, home freezing equipment and radio receivers. They held the

. Matthew's, and was buried in York's Prospect Hill Cemetery.99 Summary: Once again, like the Hoff and Eberman families that preceded it, we find in the Shreiner family a mini-dynasty of Lancaster Borough/City clockmakers/watchmakers/jewelers. Martin Shreiner, Sr., had learned his trade from John Eberman, who

1788 by Susanna Wright's nephew the first lots lay upon the 100 acre tract purchased by her in 1726. 15 In 1726 Samuel Blunston also purchased 600 acres from James Logan that bordered on the north of Susanna Wright's tract. 16 An old Wright family account book records that John Wright and Samuel